ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1804, 18 October 1888, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, October 15,

The Mariposa arrived at 7 o'clock on Monday morning. She brings the following' intelligence :

GENEEAL SUMMARY.

The captain and first mate of the British barque Gulf have been arrested in London on a charge of haviog attempted to scuttle the vessel, which sailed from Quebec on July 2nd for Greenock, and arrived at Queenstown on September 6th. Mr G. W. Petter, founder of the Echo, the first halfpenny paper in London, and dki of the original members of the great publishing houso, Caasell «nd Co., died in London on September 18th.

i A mutiny occurred among the troops at Portobello barracks, Dublin, on Sunday, : September 16th. Exasperated by their i treatment the men attacked the. quarters of Major Whiteley and other officers. They broke into and sacked tho Major's .house, destroyed all the furniture, and took the Major's portrait into the yard, whero they threw it upon a pile of blazing goods. Five of the ringleaders were arrested.

Mrs Jane Taylor, a handsome and fashionably attired lady belonging to Niagara Falls, was found dead in Phwnix Park on September 22nd, having committed suicide with opium. The case is considered a mysterious ona, and the police are investigating it. The superiority of the Lebel rifle, added to the discovery of smokeless powder, besides the detonations of the new cartridge being scarcely audible, so thai the filing, will not reveal the whereabouts of; the< enemy, is exciting the-serious attention of every war office in Europe. France has sole possession of the secret, •and is guarding it carefully. n, : ;,; . ; A tight rope walker, at Angierfl, while performing;tifty feet from the ground, on September 18th, amid the applause of the "spectators, slipped and fell. He was picked up dead and shockingly mangled. 1 An explosion occurred 'in : the melinite factory of St. Omer on September 21st, destroying six factories and two dwellings. The French authorities have despatched: agents to Canada to ascertain what oppor- ; tunitiea there are for using that country as a, dumping ground for, paupers and criminals.

Despatches received in London on September 23rd say that the crop in India has failed, and Government have been compelled to adopt measures for the relief of the population at Bombay, and in .tie Deccan crops are suffering from drought, while in Bengal excess of rain has flooded the country. * Prince Amadeus, of Italy, and the Princess Lucre tine were married at Turin on September 11th. King Humbert gave 150,000 f to the poor of Rome.

Near Zava, the capital of the Austrian province of Dalmatia, thousands of coins of the Diocletian period and other early times have been found.

Specimens of Komao and Grecian sculpture and Byzantine architecture have been discovered along the Dalmatian shores. Amphitheatres, temples, catacombs, aod other evidences of a very highly civilised community have been discovered. Tba Irish inmates of the Home, Glasgow, broke out in a riot on September 18th, and wrecked the house arjd fought desperately. The police broke twenty batons iu endeavoring to quell the disturbance. Sixly-five emigrants were arrested, and fifly-two sentenced-to one month's iinprisomuei t; the others were remanded.

Patrick Kelly, a seaman, who stabbed to death two shipmate*, John Chnp'raan and John Parry, on t he steumer Erin, from London for Nuw York, and was brought back to England !or trial, was on Sepfcinbei 22nd convicted iu London, and sentenced to bu hanged.

Four huudrtiii C itbolic Irish stovedoree employed in th'u Glasgow harbor have been dismissed, and will bo replaced by Protestunta from Bolfaet, It was feared

• ,i.S-pt"Miber the 15th that a riot wou'd ensue. The cause of the dianaiaeal, as stated by the employers, is that the men belong to a union which is constantly making intolenint demands. i Late advices from North-west Canada report starvation among the inhabitants, With many deuthn. Cannibalism exists in the Plate Eivor disirict ; parents of families having killed and eaten their own Children. Tltt sum of 554,000d0'5., voted for supplies to the North-western Indians, has been appropriated by dishonest agents, and hence the Buffering.

i Families are fleeing from starvation in Labrador, four were brought to Quebec in a schooner on September 22nd. They abandoned everything they possaased. ! A London despatch of September 14th says it is generally believed that Major Jiarttelot was betrayed by Tippoo Tib, and there is a growing impression that Stanley has been murdered by Africans. Capt,in yan Qele, who returned to Brussels from the Congo country on September 11th, stated: in an interview that he believed himself to be the White Pasha said to have been seen in the Bahr el Gazsl'e district. fle,sajd at the beginning of the year he hud anumber of oonflictswith natives in lhat direction.

| Sir: Samuel Baker believes Stanley is alive, and when next heard from definitely it will be found he has joined Emin Bey. : A German named Ludwig was arrested pu suspicion on September, 14th of being jthe prepefcratqr of the recent Whitechapel hiurders. He had threatened a fallen woman in Whitechapel with a long knife. In his pockets were found a razor and a pair of scissors. He cannot speak Eng'iah, an'i had only been in the country three months. Another-arrest was made on the 18th. i AMERICAN SUMMARY. ! San Francisco, September 24. ' An attempt was made on the night of September 7th to steal the body of Hugh Maxwell, alias Brooks, the murderer of Preller, recently executed in St. Leuis. A watchman shot at three men in the cemtery,'and after they fled found a rope and grave robbing tools. ! Mr Richard' A. Proctor, th 6 famous astronomer, died of.ye'low fever at.. Wedland'a'Hospital,New York, on September 12th, of black vomit—the worst phase of yellow fever. Mr Proctor had been spending a several weeks with bis .family at Oakliwn, Marion Country, Florida, in which State the fever is now epidemic. - Meyer Golstein, confidential clerk of the New York firm of Gisenbaum and Son, wns locked up on September 22nd for forging cheques to the amount of 30,000 do hrs, and dissipating the money.